JAWA­HAR Lal Sarin, pres­i­dent of the gov­ern­ing body of Al­liance Française here, will be con­ferred with France’s high­est civil­ian hon­our by French Am­bas­sador to In­dia Alexan­dre Ziegler at an event on Fri­day.

France’s high­est civil­ian hon­our ‘Knight of the Le­gion of Hon­our’ will be be­stowed on Sarin in recog­ni­tion of his out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to en­hanc­ing Indo-French cul­tural co­op­er­a­tion and pro­mot­ing the French lan­guage.